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<td class="v">31:1</td>
<td>I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?</td>
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<td class="v">31:2</td>
<td>For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?</td>
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<td class="v">31:3</td>
<td>Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?</td>
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<td class="v">31:4</td>
<td>Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?</td>
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<td class="v">31:5</td>
<td>If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;</td>
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<td class="v">31:6</td>
<td>Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.</td>
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<td class="v">31:7</td>
<td>If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;</td>
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<td class="v">31:8</td>
<td>Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.</td>
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<td class="v">31:9</td>
<td>If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;</td>
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<td class="v">31:10</td>
<td>Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.</td>
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<td class="v">31:11</td>
<td>For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.</td>
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<td class="v">31:12</td>
<td>For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.</td>
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<td class="v">31:13</td>
<td>If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;</td>
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<td class="v">31:14</td>
<td>What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?</td>
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<td class="v">31:15</td>
<td>Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?</td>
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<td class="v">31:16</td>
<td>If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;</td>
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<td class="v">31:17</td>
<td>Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;</td>
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<td class="v">31:18</td>
<td>(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)</td>
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<td class="v">31:19</td>
<td>If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;</td>
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<td class="v">31:20</td>
<td>If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;</td>
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<td class="v">31:21</td>
<td>If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:</td>
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<td class="v">31:22</td>
<td>Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.</td>
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<td class="v">31:23</td>
<td>For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.</td>
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<td class="v">31:24</td>
<td>If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;</td>
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<td class="v">31:25</td>
<td>If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;</td>
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<td class="v">31:26</td>
<td>If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;</td>
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<td class="v">31:27</td>
<td>And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:</td>
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<td class="v">31:28</td>
<td>This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.</td>
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<td class="v">31:29</td>
<td>If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:</td>
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<td class="v">31:30</td>
<td>Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.</td>
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<td class="v">31:31</td>
<td>If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.</td>
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<td class="v">31:32</td>
<td>The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.</td>
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<td class="v">31:33</td>
<td>If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:</td>
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<td class="v">31:34</td>
<td>Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?</td>
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<td class="v">31:35</td>
<td>Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.</td>
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<td class="v">31:36</td>
<td>Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.</td>
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<td class="v">31:37</td>
<td>I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.</td>
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<td class="v">31:38</td>
<td>If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;</td>
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<td class="v">31:39</td>
<td>If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:</td>
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<td class="v">31:40</td>
<td>Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.</td>
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